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Embryonic stem cells have the extraordinary ability to divide without limit yet maintain the potential to make all types of cells found in the human body. This holds tremendous implications for the worlds of drug discovery and testing, cell production, and tissue transplantation medicine.

Benjamin

Overall, I’m really glad I decided to go to the talk. I got to learn a lot about stem cells, how they are used in different parts of the body, and some of the difficulties with using stem cells. It was definitely way more enjoyable than anything else I was planning on doing during that time. If there are more opportunities like this that come up, I would definitely try to go to them.

Thomas

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Dr. James
Thomson’s breakthrough work with induced pluripotent stem cells, the Wisconsin
Institute for Discovery (WID) hosted a panel of University of Wisconsin stem
cell scientists to discuss the future of their research on November 13th. Entitled “Stem Cell Science: The Next 20
Years” and designed for the general public, the audience heard from Drs. Lynn Allen
Hoffman, David Gamm and
David
Vereide, who talked about applying stem cell
research to develop clinical applications for skin grafting, vision restoration
and regenerative biology, respectively.